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J. R. R. Tolkien (ed. by Brian Sibley)
The Fall of Númenor and Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth
New York: HarperCollins, 2022
The Fall of Númenor is a compilation of Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth. Its central plotline is the rise and fall of the island kingdom of Númenor, which Tolkien modeled after Atlantis. (more…)
Terror Antiquus, L. Bakst (1908)
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Aquaman was perhaps the closest thing to a fulfillment of Kantbot’s promise that Trump would raise Thule, and Atlantis. In order to give Aquaman a saleable “mythic resonance,” it unavoidably has to draw on Greco-Roman mythology and showcase what is bemoaningly called White Male Power. Whilst a 2018 film, Aquaman seems to belong to the late ‘90s in its casting and racial attitudes, and the screenplay has all sorts of lines that describe an interplay of Aryan and Judaic values.
Socrates in Raphael’s The School of Athens with Hermocrates, Critias, and Timaeus
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Part 2 of 2
Socrates in Raphael’s The School of Athens with Hermocrates, Critias, and Timaeus
Author’s Note:
The following text is based on a transcript by V. S. of Part 2 of my lecture on “The Myths of Plato.” As usual, I have edited his transcript to remove excessive wordiness and corrected small mistakes. To focus this transcript on the Timaeus and Critias, I moved all extraneous material to the transcript of Part 1.
Nicholas Roerich, “The Destruction of Atlantis,” 1928-29